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Today was the most magical day of my life to date...I spent the evening as an aunt, taking my 4 year old neice and 2 year old nephew trick or treating.There is something so refreshing about a child that age in your life to remind you of the excitement you once felt as a child with the simplicity in dressing up for Halloween, paging through the toy catalog to make your Christmas list and all the other feel goods that come along with the beginning of the holiday season. Happy Halloween fellow bloggers! Im feeling eternal bliss tonight!

“If they convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media” Sarah Palin said this on a radio interview. It is astonishing that someone lacking a basic understanding of our system of government could be president. that is scary

Can someone help me? I can't remember the exact wording of the saying:

Its the size of those fighting shumie not the size of shumie... ummm.. its the size of the shumie fighting not the size of the fight of those fighting...no..ummm..the size of the fight...no...its not the size of shumie...no....damn it. I can never get it right. Someone please help.

To 12:31: No one is cheering the freeing of a murderer; we cheer the defense lawyer's ability to demonstrate that under the rules of our law, anything less than proof beyond a reasonable doubt should result in an acquittal. If a guilty man was freed, don't look to the defense lawyer for contrition, look to the state-paid bureaucrats who inadequately prosecuted the case.